The hideous crime was hushed up and life went on. But 20 years later its effects yield a devastating retribution . . .
She is new in the Provencal village. Everyone knows her simply as Elle, and everyone knows her: simmering with sexuality, she is the dream that comes true for Fiorimundo Montecciari. There is talk when he takes her home to his bed, and it grows as the hot summer wears on. For Elle's path of seduction leads not to love but to revenge. Her seeming innocent beauty is her deadly weapon, her lover and his family her targets.
Sebastien Japrisot's subtle, shocking and complex novel draws on four different voices gradually to weave a tale of passion, destruction, crime and punishment.
